Supported Decision-Making Act

The act establishes a legal framework under which an adult may voluntarily enter a written agreement authorizing one or more supporters to help them understand, make, and communicate decisions about their own affairs, rather than transferring decision-making authority to someone else. It governs how such an agreement is formed and terminated, what a supporter may and may not do — including assisting the adult in obtaining information relevant to a decision — and how third parties may accept and rely on the agreement, while treating a decision or request made with a supporter's assistance as the adult's own. It also restricts the use of the agreement as evidence at trial, preserves the adult's ability to act independently of it, and imposes a duty to report abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation, or abandonment of older or vulnerable persons.

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